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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15
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THE TIMES TUESDAY NOVEMBER * 1955 _
. . . ‘an excepuonally good report, in which no j on routine wor
Parliament
mention was made of hig leftewing views. | |, ment. While he
Té the board had known that be had [iment allegatior
riod of ave
i elt ‘man Jmeltigence ma
automatically, be excluded Som the, i investigated, by
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ENSURING SECURITY IN A cence) Oppetion meni wae aly
. urely ik Wi ve yegat le
c 3 ings as one of the aberrations ‘of youth, | prospects {
at FREE SOCIETY ste one at te-aberatom of 2OHR,| ets,
. down, (Laughter.) It was not fair in judg- fit wast
ing a man to bring in the atm him to Wa
iia er dec eet aca | tome
t was important to at tn aig
Maclean's appoiniment in Cairo | serous indiscr
SIR A. EDEN ACCEPTS INQUIRY = |pisitithesty sPtitret sone | Senge,
BY PRIVY COUNCILLORS erly good Dut caanding, SET ie | four ead
" contemporaries, Durity the first 14 years fourth grade
HOUSE OF COMMONS _ | these incidents, which, had actually een in he service his condi Prout in alro, | 22 Washi
Monpay, Nov. 7 ‘observed. Should not the number of obset- | which ‘culminated in a sudden application The Ambas
‘The Sbéaxza took the Chair at half past Vers be increased 60 that they could observe | for sick leave, was at the time interpreted | both on hi
e what_was going on jn advance ? 4s the result of a longed. od of | outside, and
two o'clock. MR. a s _& prok peri ;
MOMACMILLAN said it would be { overwork and strain. his establish
FALKLAND DEPENDENCIES best to let General Burns decide how many ‘SECOND CHANCE bis appoin'«
MR. JOHN HALL (Wacombe, Co, and | Observers BE RT He was regarded asa valuable member ened
WING CMDR. ERIC BU LUS (Wembley, ARTIFICIAL RAIN of the cick, ‘and there was every reason the “ay
North, C) asked the Secretary, of State | MR. GEORGE WARD, Under-Secretary | {0 Rapti ‘and to hope that he might make } po rounds
for Foreign Atlas ui would make, # | of MR Heer re writien reply, states: { a full recovery from what appeared, tO against the
wih chile and. & Set oe Falke Some experiments in cloud seeding have | a, sat of nervous breakdown, and the | been indisc
and Toland’ Dependencies. rece) are a vine, caine Foreign, Offer Je aM nceteat te. Gime | Speak
1 MR. TURTON, Under Secretary, Foreign | The uring normal oeontalied by. ihe | tnere was no suspicion as,to bis lovey Fhe! wishe
+- | Office (Thirsk and Malton, C.), said that | Meteorological Office and have taken place | tried to see Ne had the right nedical treat- | fairness tc
7 | both the Argentine and Chilean Govern- | over an area where ney itive resulis | ment and a chance of recovery. that af
' ments had informed the International Court | might, have a practical ab well as an experi- ds was casy 10 say with pesent know- cillor, rec.
of Justice that they wero unwilling 10 mental value. It is not yet possible to sai ledge that the decision was wong. Perba, ir. Mch
accept the jurisdiction of the court in whether any signiGcant Jncrease in rainfall | it was. It was easy to be wee after the | carac his
regard to their claims to our Antarctic } can be athleved. event, but he was given a scond chance miffan} fe
territories, he step was taken before, the and. at the end of five mons’ mesic this parti
of Fr in > ailment, he was t
Hwa county, ete, as a BACKGROUND TO | kipetci' doatinety *| LEAT
ent ntine i d 1c intment implied ne promotion
present Argentine Otude ine atntement TREACHERY for 'himand. ent implied Wr ortunity to ]
at the United Nations General Assembly} Cy ASHING IDEOLOGIES watch his conduct and|his heath. At this
tjme no suspicion reste on hin. -
‘As soon as he fell under susficion, whish
was in the. middle-of April, B51, one af
those informed was Sit Roger Makins, now
% successful
le then
‘on October 3, the Argentine delegate re-
peated in general terms the Argentine
Government's claims inthe Antarctic.
. BURAIMI ACTION
JUSTIFIED
MONEY AND DOCUMENTS
MR. MACMILLAN, Secrets of Stat
foe ACM Mata Bromley Co, ink
Statement about conditions inthe Buraimi
| Oasis, said that since the Ruler of Abu
On the motion for the adjournment,
MR. MACMILLAN initiated 2 debate
on the disappearance of Burgess and
He said that it could rarely have
happened in the long Parliamentary, history
‘of Britain that th litical head of @
department should have had to unfold to the
House so painful a Story. ‘as that which it
was their duty to consider. .
"To understand, without excusing, that
story it was necessary 10 recall the back-
ground in the 1930s in which the two
principal characters grew, UP. ‘At that time
Violent opinions were being expressed, with
our distinguished an
Ambassador in Washington. w
Maclean's immediate chief, being the
superintending ‘Under-Secretary of the group
in which the depatiment cane, I¢ was,
therefore, quite untrue, as had been sus-
that ‘Sir Roger ‘Makins was in any
Way Fesponsible for the conduct of an
inquiry or bad checked or cleard Maclean.
‘That was not the case, and weh a sug-
estion was false and grossly unfair to
ir Rogen Makins.
BURGESS’S RECORD
Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat reasserted
_their rights om October 26 the situation
i there had been completely Hie and normal,
\e
autho
Aitee referring to the Prime Minister's } the Spanish civil war dividin British and + ‘ ‘ i
i ian Government | ticularly disturbing ‘on young people, ° i gi
Housed to's repusation of te Arbice | many of whore taought it thew duty 18 a temporary Press, offices in the news, 863 | Ere
E ty oni fe part in those revolutionary strugeiss- ini formation, i de
brit an 1c last wat began some ol 9 u i. "
Baa taken piace amepg the, inhabitants of | who hed ae onaed enurerast wiews found | Eble" bac ave what serene (9 be a respesk ie
the disputed area and had clearly rendered | their ideological beliefs ‘exerted & stronger In 1945 he took advantage of the oppor to
| any genuine expression of sheic wishes inv: | pull than eit, patio}, et Tho wa | Et ee Ne sO tctaporary officers to apply ft E
possible, and Trely upon the attitude of | ended the clash of loyalties, which had | for TOPE een ae che junior bra Prot Hie
e Saudi Government lowards the tribunal | becn buried in 194, was revived. for eoreign service, Hi punaated betore a HEP:
itself Que position has been fully justified | | Thus it was that men could be found in | Be Fereiee Yoard, who Dep earSmncaded | Pert
{ by the fuidence obtained as a result of the | Britain who could put the interests of } fim for establishment. In Yorn to the | den"
ui 4 gon ‘of the forces of the Ruler of Abu | another oountry before their own, and com- | hoard. they were impressed by his excellent | Pros
abiiand the Sultan of Muscat into | mit the horrible crime of afachery, ‘This | DMS, they NOE ie well as by the good | 0
7 Boag Mtn the first place, a large sum | occurred not only among, criminals and | ease they had received SBrerng his eme | Po
of money was found in the possession of | degencrates, Dut. in men holding high tcch- | Tiovment in the B.B.C. and in She Foreign | si
the Saudi police detachment there, far in | nical crates, Dut ae posts, in men of Philo- | moo news department. However, his
in the Foreign Serv e, Many ne had | a'warlime depariment responsible for propa- | 4.,
seen that service
abroad would agree that Britain was fore
tunate to have a service of the highest
quality, giving most loyal and devoted
service ta the Crown and the nation. ‘That
Foreign Service regarded the severe blow
against its teputation as a personal case,
wi had caused a profound shock to
Parliament and, the general public-cries
yor “Hear, hear.”)}—~at home and abroad.
7 DUNISTERS’ RESPONSIBILITY
post. ‘This sum of moncy is being returned
To the Saudi Goverament. Secondly, man)
documents came into our possession whict
BYE ample confirmation of the charges we
ave made.
MR, GRIMOND (Orkney and Zetland,
Tt Lede As it is apparent that on this matter
winting WE have an absolutely cast iron cate. and
“Re, We are at fast standing up for our friends
Me OS sn) of the world, will the Foreign
Se nee tee AY.
ganda to neutral” counuies ha
unsatisfactory. .
‘Te was unfortunately the case that during
\ntt $22 MEnd perhaps one could hardl
‘wonder at it—many war departments di
‘porary staff. The fact remained that neither
The Foreign Office nor the Civil, Service
commission knew of Burgess’s failings,
: SEVERE REPRIMAND >,
i is by which he was establishes
Pomel wal Oeigber, 1947. 18
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